Experience from e-government services: A topic model approach

Dash, Satya Bhusan and Jain, Avinash (2022) Experience from e-government services: A topic model approach. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review. ISSN 2277-9752 (In Press)

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Abstract

Governments globally are striving to improve citizens’ service delivery by adopting digital technologies, such as online portals and call centres. Although digitization provides an opportunity to improve citizens’ satisfaction, to design citizen centric e-government services, agencies need to proactively understand citizens’ experiences. This study explored the Google Play reviews of UMANG (an aggregated e-government mobile application of the Government of India). We aggregated 4,921 reviews provided from March 2020 to April 2021. We first theoretically (using the S-O-R framework) and empirically (link between sentiment polarity and user rating) examined the validity of user reviews to extract insights into citizens’ experiences. Subsequently, we extracted eight topics related to citizens’ experiences by using latent Dirichlet allocation, an unsupervised machine learning algorithm. The following topics were identified—perceived usefulness, ease of use, product feature experience, delivery turnaround time, technological experience, login experience, customer care experience, and payment experience. We validated identified topics by determining the inter-rater agreement between LDA and human rater output. Finally, we calculated the relative importance of the identified topics and topic-wise sentiment polarity. The findings of this study can help in designing citizen centric e-government services and prioritizing the right dimension of citizens’ experience.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: E-Governance | Citizen Experience | Citizen Centric | Latent Dirichlet Allocation | Machine Learning
Subjects: Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General)
JGU School/Centre: Jindal School of Banking & Finance
Depositing User: Amees Mohammad
Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2022 06:05
Last Modified: 09 Nov 2022 06:05
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/22779752221126571
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/4788

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